Perhaps known as one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has for years intrigued scholars, authors and the average American citizen. The assassination can be classified into two distinct categories: method and significance. Few would argue that too much emphasis has been given to the method and very little to the significance. This is exactly how the perpetrators would like it to be. Photographic evidence along with eyewitness testimony has already conclusively proven that JFK was shot by more than one assassin. The Mary Mormon photo clearly shows the profile of a shooter behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. It is obviously someone wearing a policeman's uniform {some speculate it was J.D. Tippit}. This was the fatal head shot. Two other bullets struck the President; the first one entered at the base of the throat and the second struck him in the back. While the positions of the assassins makes for a good game of clue, the more important issue is the significance of the assassination.

Many have speculated that the former Soviet Union, Cuba, the KKK, the Mafia, LBJ, CIA and the FBI all had strong motives to attempt this. However, given the connection of Lee Harvey Oswald to the CIA and Jack Ruby to the Mafia along with the altered autopsy reports, the evidence points to a coup de' dat by the CIA. They did it because they believed JFK was taking the United States on the wrong path towards dealing with communism. That is the reason why the cover-up has been sustained for so long. The perpetrators honestly believed they were doing the right thing for the United States at the time. The will of the people was discarded in favor of preserving the nation as they saw fit. Unfortunately, they didn't realize the long term effects of the assassination. One result was the increased power of capitalism over democracy. Profit has become more important than freedom. Corporations are more concerned with increasing the wealth of a select few than with promoting the general welfare of the very nation that allows them to conduct business. A second result has been the subordination of this nation's civil liberties to the private agendas of the powers that be. The only opinions that are accepted today are those that further the bottom line. Contrary opinions are discouraged and distorted by spin doctors. The only explanation for the lack of attention given to the significance of the assassination is because the government, the military and the media all know what happened and to expose the event for what it really was goes to the central core of what constitutes the United States of America.

But I don't see how you link the assination to the subversion of freedoms, and the power of corporations. I agree that those things are happening, I just don't think it is because of the JFK assisination. It is because of, as green day puts it, the redneck agenda.

good points...

Check out this link

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbutler.htm

George Butler was my uncle. Right after the JFK assassination, I recall "Uncle George" saying had someone shot and killed Oswald at Dallas Love Field moments before he was getting on an airplane and escaping, he'd be a hero. You think that was Uncle George's way of saying Ruby was a hero?

Uncle George was a kook and a half. He belonged to the John Birch Society, and probably the KKK. Dallas was a very strange place in 1963, especially the Dallas police force.

But for what it's worth, if you believe the stories, my family was responsible for Ruby killing Oswald.

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Where have all the Conservatives Gone?

There is always hope, as long as one can think.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.- Thomas Jefferson

Evidently. It is weird coming upon your nucle's name in connection to the JFK assassination. Uncle George's name appears in 25 books on the JFK assassination.

Uncle George often came over to the house for Thanksgiving, long after retiring. Even then he'd wear his shoulder pistol under his jacket. In '73 or so, my girlfriend and I were going to the movies to see Dirty Harry. Uncle George asked that I think of him while watching the movie. Okay....

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At least your's made the funny papers.

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